"Folk art" signifies the poetical, musical, and pictorial activities of those strata of the population which are uneducated and no...t urbanized or industrialized. It is of the essence of this art that those who keep it in being are not only passively receptive, but normally are creative participants in the artistic activities, and yet do not stand out as individuals or claim any personal authorship of the productions. "Popular art" on the other hand is to be understood as artistic or quasi-artistic production for the demand of a half-educated public, generally urban and inclined to mass-behavior. In folk art, producers and consumers are hardly distinguished, and the boundary between them is always fluid; in the case of popular art, we find on the contrary an artistically uncreative, completely passive public, and professional production of artistic goods strictly in response to the demand for them. It is indeed a striking fact that folk art, especially folk-poetry, emerges from the ranks of those who enjoy it, whereas popular songs--the street ballads and popular "hits"Mderive from professionals belonging to and spir itually dependent upon the upper classes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way... he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And he thought to himself...., 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to h...im, 'You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me n...othing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »